TY  - JOUR
A1  - Entorf, Horst
A1  - Lange, Martin
T1  - Refugees welcome? Understanding the regional heterogeneity of anti-refugee hate crime
T2  - Regional science and urban economics
N2  - In this article, we examine anti-refugee hate crime in the wake of the large influx of refugees to Germany in 2014 and 2015. By exploiting institutional features of the assignment of refugees to German regions, we estimate the impact of unexpected and sudden large-scale immigration on hate crime against refugees. Results indicate that it is not simply the size of local refugee inflows which drives the increase in hate crime, but rather the combination of refugee arrivals and latent anti-refugee sentiment. We show that ethnically homogeneous areas, areas which experienced hate crimes in the 1990s, and areas with high support for the Nazi party in the Weimar Republic, are more prone to respond to the arrival of refugees with incidents of hate crime against this group. Our results highlight the importance of regional anti-immigration sentiment in the analysis of the incumbent population’s reaction to immigration.
KW  - Hate crime
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Immigration
KW  - Regional conditions
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/79017
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-790174
SN  - 0166-0462
VL  - 101
IS  - 103913
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -